Seventh International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'99) - Volume 1
Using Model-Driven Bundle-Adjustment to Model Heads from Raw Video Sequences
Corfu, Greece
September 20-September 25
ISBN: 0-7695-0164-8
We show that we can effectively and automatically fit a complex facial animation model to uncalibrated image sequences. Our approach is based on model-driven bundle-adjustment followed by least-squares fitting. It takes advantage of three complementary sources of information: stereo data, silhouette edges and 2-D feature points. In this way, complete head models can be acquired with a cheap and entirely passive sensor, such as an ordinary video camera. They can then be fed to existing animation software to produce synthetic sequences.